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PDL/piddle development in Pugs and/or further tweaks to the Perl5 version of the library would be quite useful. The library is incredibly useful for scientific work, and its inclusion in core is one of the things I'm most looking forward to in Perl6.

As far as I know, PDL development is pretty slow thesedays and I'm not sure that there is any Perl6/Pugs work in that area yet. Are there useful numerical/statistical C libraries that people are using instead?

The GNU Science Library may be worth looking at if you are thinking along the lines of a Perl wrapper. A few GSL pieces are used in PDL, but only a very limited subset. It would be nice to have a proper GSL binding for Perl - I don't know that there are any other bindings with the same functional coverage that this would provide.

And yes, eight weeks of full time hacking. Given that Google are
(generously) paying at a rate equivalent to $27,000 per year, my non-humble
opinion is that any student not giving their full time attention is slacking.
How many other student summer jobs pay $14/hour?

That would hardly take 8 weeks of full-time hacking. It could be done in about three days of full-time hacking. Make that a week if you want a large array of bells and whistles, maybe.

I mean, I built a wiki into the web app for my contract job by accident when I needed to make snippets of my templates user-editable. 20 minutes, one (name, content) table, 10 lines of straightforward code, 3 trivial queries in the DB layer and 10 sparse lines of template later I had something that took a life of its own as

Imagine for a moment, that you had access to all the metadata in or on CPAN.That is was trivially easy with almost no work, to relate authors, dists, modules, dependencies, testing failures, kwalitee, mirrors, RT bug reports, and all the other metrics for CPAN.

The data is currently sitting in the CPAN index, in CPANTS data, in CPAN Tests data, all over the place, scaterred on 4 sites, and accessible sometimes only through the modules and APIs for those specific systems.

Install WHAT direct from WHICH subversion exactly?I mean, I just wrote a script for my current client which does that for the dozen non-CPAN (and a few CPAN) dists that need to be installed to set up a particular system.

Takes a list of tarball names, pulls them from the/releases/ dir in subversion, perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install, setting PREFIX and PERL5LIB etc.

It's maybe 100 lines and took 2 hours.

While it might be nice to have a generalised form, I'm not sure it's makes for an 8 week pro